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A Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger, the same model family as N98CM
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N98CM

Bell 206B

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesOregon

N98CM is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1989. It has 5 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Wilsonville, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 21, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 17, 1989.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
206B · all 206Bs and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. This is how the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
4056
Type
RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
Seats
5
Year built
1989
Cruising speed
112 mph
Transponder code
ADA909 (octal 53324411)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
October 21, 2025
Expires
October 31, 2032
Last FAA action
October 21, 2025
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 17, 1989
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00374698

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sk Hoff Enterprises LLC
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
PO Box 116
Wilsonville, OR 97070-0116
Co-owners
1869 Leasing LLC / Mustang LLC

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N98CM links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Wilsonville, OR 130 aircraft registered in this town
  • Oregon 7,020 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N98CM.json.

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The public federal record on N98CM, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Sk Hoff Enterprises LLC, a co-owned, certificate issued October 21, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated June 17, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4056 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N98CM according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N98CM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data